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Fighting China Over Taiwan Could Cripple U.S. Military (www.19fortyfive.com)

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[–] Neodosa@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Will you address the claim made in the article which you clearly only read the headline of:

In describing the outcome of the Congressional wargames, Rep. Mike Gallagher said that the U.S. used up almost all of its precision-guided missiles in a week. I assure you, China would not run out of missiles in a week.

You seem to just assume that the US can somehow magically appear missiles into existance, but I mean think about it, is it the US or China that deindustrialized? Also, why does the US wargame conclude that at least two US aircraft carriers would be downed in the first two weeks?

[+] BROOT@lemm.ee -20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Where did I say that? There’s a whole lot of conjecture in your statement. Nothing in the article gives the vastly different rules of each of the war game scenarios they ran. Also, congressional war games are often utter and complete bullshit, run by people that have no idea how the American military and its supply chain and contractors operate. All I ever said was that I think this shit would be worse for China than for us.

[–] Neodosa@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does the US losing two aircraft carriers and running out of missiles way before China equate to China being worse off than the US?

[–] juchebot88@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Also, congressional war games are often utter and complete bullshit, run by people that have no idea how the American military and its supply chain and contractors operate. All I ever said was that I think this shit would be worse for China than for us.

Even if I grant that whatever game or simulation they ran isn't entirely accurate, I'm still not willing to go to war based on the gut feelings of some guy on the internet. Especially since a lot of people, speaking on similar "gut feelings" and a good ol' conservative distrust of the "experts," were confidently telling me just a few months ago that Ukrainian troops would absolutely be in Crimea by now.